HTC U Ultra now available in Canada

In a surprise move, HTC’s U Ultra smartphone is now available to purchase in Canada.

Canadians can buy the new device unlocked for $999 from the HTC website. It’s available in ‘Sapphire Blue,’ ‘Ice White’ and ‘Brilliant Black.’

Consumers that take the plunge and buy the U Ultra can also get a pair of JBL Aware C earphones, normally priced at $270, for $135 CAD.

Announced at the start of the year, the HTC Ultra borrows many of its marquee features from other popular handsets. For instance, taking a page from the LG V20, the U Ultra features a 160 x 1040 secondary display. Moreover, like the iPhone 7 and Moto Z, HTC’s latest smartphone doesn’t feature a separate analog headphone jack for audio output — which is where the JBL headphones promotion helps. See the chart below for a full list of the device’s internal specs.

Freedom Mobile subscribers note that the U Ultra’s LTE modem does not support Band 66, meaning you won’t be able to use this device’s with the carrier’s LTE network.

MobileSyrup will have a review of the U Ultra in the coming weeks. Stay tuned.

Freedom users probably don’t care, HTC is a massively damaged brand who fell apart after the M7 and never recovered and there entry level devices were not very good

Stephen B Morris

Well the A9 wasn’t bad, just expensive. In fact most of their flagship phones weren’t bad. They just consistently came up short compared to the competition. And were too expensive for outright purchase. But yeah, you are right.

vn33

Ughhhh … $1K for a phone? If I want to spend that amount of money, I would at east choose some phone which has better resale value, which I don’t think HTC offers.

Stephen B Morris

HTC U must be crazy!

gremlin0007

Is it April 1st already??

eszklar

Not at this price, no. Makes me wonder what the final pricing will be for the LG G6 as well. Let’s also see what the Samsung S8/S8+ will cost as well.